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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the people who gather remember Jack?
(a) With contempt.
(b) Fondly.
(c) Angrily.
(d) Jealously.

2. What does Mat do in his backyard on the night after Jack's service?
(a) Contemplates Jack in silence.
(b) Cries.
(c) Builds another barn.
(d) Prepares his own funeral service.

3. Who is Clara?
(a) Jack's sister.
(b) Jack's daughter.
(c) Ben's wife.
(d) Mat's sister.

4. How did Ruth feel about the mortgage being paid off?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Sad.
(c) She didn't know that he paid it off.
(d) Happy.

5. Who are the people who gather on Jack's farm in the Epilogue?
(a) Only family members.
(b) The men of Port William.
(c) Men and women from town.
(d) Only women from town.

6. After Ruth's death, what did Jack worry about?
(a) Who would run the farm.
(b) How he could run the business that he had in town.
(c) How he would live alone.
(d) Who would cook his food.

7. What does Jack's lawyer see as he lingers at Jacks place?
(a) Crops that are dying.
(b) Clara coming down the road.
(c) A tornado coming.
(d) Unmistakeable signs of Jack.

8. Who comes to pay their respects as Jack lies in the coffin?
(a) Just friends from town.
(b) Glad, Clara, and people from town.
(c) Only Glad and Clara.
(d) Clara and Margaret.

9. What is the name of the tenant on Jack's farm?
(a) William.
(b) Elton.
(c) Andy.
(d) Parker.

10. When Mat sees the coffin, what is his opinion of it?
(a) Wrong color.
(b) Just right.
(c) Not fancy enough.
(d) Too fancy.

11. Specifically, what do the people who gather to remember Jack recall about him?
(a) His intelligence.
(b) His clothes.
(c) His looks.
(d) His idiosyncrasies and sayings.

12. To whose ambitions was Clara trying to live up to?
(a) Ruth's.
(b) Rose's.
(c) Mat's.
(d) Jack's.

13. Where is the coffin set up?
(a) In the Feltner's house.
(b) In Rose's old house.
(c) At the church.
(d) On Jack's farm.

14. As Andy goes to say good-bye to Old Jack, in what state does Andy find Jack?
(a) On the floor, crying.
(b) Clutching his chest.
(c) Laughing hysterically at a memory.
(d) As usual, lost in thought.

15. When Mat watches the Pettits leave, what does he realize?
(a) They really do want Jack's farm.
(b) They will never return to Port William.
(c) They are so sad about Jack's death, but they don't know how to express it.
(d) Clara really wants to be back in Port William.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mat finds that Jack is dead, what is his reaction?

2. What is Jack's relationship with Clara?

3. When friends and family begin to worry about Jack living on his own, where does Jack go?

4. How does Jack remember the years following Rose's absence?

5. What made Clara not feel at home in Port William any more?

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